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I am continually surprised at how poor press coverage of voting issues can be, especially when it comes to absentee/vote-by-mail/vote-by-internet stories. Here’s a story on TechWeb about “secure vote-by-mail for the military”. Not one mention of ballot secrecy and issues of voter coercion! And the kicker:

PostX is encouraging the government to allow soldiers to e-mail [...]

I’m at the MIT/Caltech Voter Registration Conference. It should be quite interesting to see what people are thinking on this oft-ignored issue. Later today, I’m presenting a poster on Scratch & Vote.
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